3) Select 'Prepare Hudson for shutdown' This will allow you to type a short message explaining why Hudson is to be shutdown, as well as prevent any new jobs from running.

4) Either wait for any running jobs to finish or cancel them

5) Under Manage Hudson, click 'Plugin Manger'

6) Select the 'Installed Plugins' tab

7) At the bottom of that page click the 'Restart when no jobs are running' button

8) Wait for Hudson to restart itself.

Restarting a specific slave

The Windows slave requires Webmaster assistance to restart, however the unix slaves can be 'soft' restarted as follows:

1) Login to the Hudson web interface

2) Select the node from the list of nodes on Hudsons main page.

3) Click the 'Mark node temporarily offline' button in the upper right corner of the page. Provide a short message about why you're about to restart the slave.

4) Wait for any jobs to finish or cancel them

5) Click the 'disconnect' link in the left menu

6) Once the node is disconnected wait ~30s and click the 'Launch slave agent' button just under the node name in the main window.

7) Watch the login process and check that everything looks 'ok'(ie: no errors)

Creating a new job

Before creating a new job you need:

A job name

The id of a committer who will 'own' the job

Optional:

Extra committer ids

A 'source' job to copy

A specific job type

1) Login to Hudsons web interface

2) Click the 'New job' link in the left hand menu

3) Provide the job name and 'default' project type(Build an open source project), if the project does not provided one.

3.a) If the project has provided a source job, select 'Copy existing job' and paste the source jobs name into the 'Copy from' text box

4) Press ok

5) Once the job config loads, scoll down to the 'Security' section.

6) Add the owning committer(and any extra committers one at a time) via the 'user group to add' textbox, and by clicking 'add' for each entry. If you press 'enter' on your keyboard, you'll be doing this again.

7) Set the permissions for each user. On most jobs that means everything except 'Extended read'.